I would like to consider myself an intelligent person. I am pretty well read and I have an interest in many different topics. Granted on this particular forum I do not have much input because I have no interest in religion or neuroscience. My dilema is, there are some days when I stumble across a piece of knowledge that really stimulates me, or I finish a book, and when I go to sleep that night I am half asleep and I am thinking about whatever it was that day that really inspired me. During this time I can almost hear myself saying extremely poetic and philosophical words describing whatever it is that is on my mind. However, when I am awake these thoughts or words never seem to make it to the front of the line of my conscious. Have any of you ever experienced this? How did you deal with it?

Haha all the time. I tried to keep a notepad by my bed to jot ideas down, but as soon as I focused on writing, I often times lose the thoughts

YES i wish there was a drug to become aware of those thoughts more consciously.

Well I was diagnosed with ADD as a child, maybe ADD is the cause of this. If there was a drug that had very little negative side effects maybe that would be the solution.


Personally I do not feel the need to take drugs, but maybe I am just being ignorant.

I dont think ADD exists.

There is now evidence that ADD in adolescents is due to developing slower than normal, the "late bloomer" syndrome. Those who develop later may actually be more advanced, in that they have a longer developmental period. Humans develop later than chimpanzees, for example. Schools should accommodate these students and not try to get them all drugged.

" ... I am half asleep..."
This state of mind -- between wakefulness and sleep, when the conscious and the subconscious minds meet -- represents a threshold, a twilight zone, or a portal, through which we can access much more information-energy, or tap our higher potential.

If anyone can provide information about that state or where to look or even what the hell that state is called -- i would be very grateful. I want to research into this.

Maybe search theta brain waves?

I really agree with you. It was not until I was out of the public school system and into college that I started to realize this. It was obviously subconsciously that I started understand what was happening. This whole process has been depressing at times because I did not understand what was going on in my mind. I felt and still feel the hunger for knowledge but always in the back of my mind I felt limited.

I find that just by reading books it keeps my brain sharp and able to grasp more concepts. I do not think that I will ever be extremely "advanced" on any topic, but I do feel now that I just need to focus. I hope one day this empty feeling that is always there goes away, the empty feeling I believe is my thirst for knowledge...where does it end? I guess I will find out.

Thanks for that Rick.

I have had the same thoughts you have Discordia. When I'm thinking through how to put information in a clear and concise way (not one of my strong points), I will sometimes come up with an extremely poetic train of thought. This has been most prevailent when I am working on my book about the evolution, imagery and message of religion - in an attempt to pin down exactly what it is.

I will often lie in bed and think of the most amazing introductory paragraphs or metaphoric laced description of something or other. The problem being I don't know the actual sequence of words to reconstruct it later. Its at these points I just wish you could record thoughts as speech, and I've often thought that maybe I should go for long walks with a dictaphone and hope I can train myself to reproduce these free-flowing thoughts out loud. I suspect I won't be able to though because consciously directing it will probably ruin the flow.

The point where the opposites unite represents the organizing principle, the neutral point, the zero node, the third phase, the Primordial Void, Sunya, time out of time, Alpha & Omega... Normally, people are unconscious of this fusion point, thus they extract the same amount of information/energy.

Its due to the way you remember things, either write down the things you want to remember or buy the book Use Your Perfect Memory by Tony Buzan.

I think I will try the first. For months now I have been meaning to get a journal.